Dixon assembles 140 illustrations which vary those basic tropes of melancholic depiction and self-presentation, and amply demonstrate the vogue for melancholy in the art and society of the late Renaissance.

Forter's short introduction addresses the notion that authors of melancholic modernism regretted, above all other losses, that of the masculinity threatened by the rise of the modern capitalist marketplace.

Normally Waters relishes making comedy in otherwise difficult situations, but here he shows a more sensitive hand at work, with a flair for the dramatic, investing the story with a suitably melancholic tone as Elizabeth and the emotionally damaged David fall in love.

On their previous six albums, Mukai Chie's group Che-Shizu sweetened their melancholic sound with more upbeat tracks, but Glimmering Star, their latest, is best listened to alone, in the dark, during bad weather.

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